Dr. Jacques LaFrance became a follower of Jesus as a freshman at Harvard University. Throughout the rest of his undergraduate and graduate work, he was active in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

In the 1970s, he was introduced to George Ritchie’s Return from Tomorrow and Maurice Rawlings’ Beyond Death’s Door. He was so fascinated with what he read that he ultimately read all 58 books in the bibliography. By noting the consistency and differences in each of these accounts, he conceived the idea of this book to create a thorough overview of what heaven is like in all of its features by putting together different authors’ descriptions of each feature.

He currently lives in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Tulsa. He enjoys nature lore, hiking, bicycling, and N-scale model railroading.